“When god became lonely he created man,
or was it
When man became lonely he created god.”
— Melanie Exler, Strengthenizer
- If god is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerful.
- If god is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not all-good.
- If god is both willing and able to prevent evil, then why does evil exist?
- If god created everything then that means he created evil. And if that is the case what does that say about god?
“There were such things as dwarf gods. Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they’d seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it’s nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, ‘Oh, random fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!’ or 'Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!’”
— Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
It's midnight here, so happy disability pride month to my fellow disableds, the chronically ill, and also to the temporarily abled.
If your activism doesn't include disability, you're sure as fuck going to wish it did.
Nothing about us without us ♿👊
As we are, so you will be. All health and ability is temporary.
“An attempt to create a new conceptual terrain for imagining alternatives to imprisonment involves the ideological work of questioning why "criminals" have been constituted as a class and, indeed, a class of human beings undeserving of the civil and human rights accorded to others. Radical criminologists have long pointed out that the category "lawbreakers" is far greater than the category of individuals who are deemed criminals since, many point out, almost all of us have broken the law at one time or another.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
George Lucas on Master Yoda: "the wisest man around, the best of all the Jedi"
